Is Surgical Intervention the Optimal Therapy for the Treatment of Aortic Valve Stenosis for Patients With Intermediate Society of Thoracic Surgeons Risk Score?

Most IR patients today should undergo surgical AVR, but because of survival rates combined with still unavailable late structural deterioration rates in TAVR valves, patients in the IR group with high Society of Thoracic Surgeons scores and known risk factors may be better served with TAVR as data regarding late percutaneous valve function accrue.